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Meet Tony Soprano: your average, middle-aged businessman. Tony's got a dutiful wife. A not-so-dutiful daughter. A son named Anthony, Jr. A mother he's trying to coax into a retirement home. A hotheaded uncle. A not-too-secret mistress. And a shrink to whom he tells all his secrets, except the one she already knows: Tony's a mob boss.
Winning four 1999 Emmy Awards out of an unprecedented sixteen nominations, this realistic, funny, intense one-hour drama series from Emmy Award-winning writer-producer David Chase ("The Rockford Files," "I'll Fly Away") and starring James Gandolfini, Lorraine Bracco, Edie Falco, Michael Imperioli and Nancy Marchand gives an inside look at the family life of a modern-day mob boss. |
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Combining drama with comic irony, "The Sopranos" reflects the absurdity of our times as well as the very real facts about today's suburban mob life, according to creator and executive producer David Chase. Part satirical, loving homage to the influences of the great American gangster films, part darkly comedic study of a New Jersey Italian-American family, it is the first-ever television series set against the family life of a contemporary Mafioso.
Mob boss Anthony "Tony" Soprano (Gandolfini - "A Civil Action") is having a mid-life crisis. He's a loving husband and father, a devoted son to his widowed mother (Marchand - "Lou Grant") and the head of a "waste management consultant" business in New Jersey. However, the multiple responsibilities of family and "Family" are taking their toll. And coping with a strained marriage to his brash and savvy wife, Carmela (1999 Emmy winner Falco - "0z"), and reining in his overly ambitious nephew, Christopher (Imperioli - "GoodFellas"), are only the beginning of his troubles. After suffering a series of anxiety attacks, Tony turns to a psychiatrist, Dr. Jennifer Melfi (Bracco - "GoodFellas"). But for a mob boss, therapy can have serious consequences...
Set and filmed at various northern New Jersey locations, "The Sopranos" also stars Dominic Chianese ("The Godfather: Part II") as Tony's volatile Uncle Junior, Tony Sirico ("GoodFellas") as wiseguy Paulie Walnuts, Steven Van Zandt (a member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band) as Mafia strip club owner Silvio Dante, along with Robert Iler and Jamie-Lynn Sigler as Tony's Nintendo-worshipping son and rebellious, college-bound 17-year-old daughter. New cast regulars this season are Aida Turturro ("Deep Blue Sea") as Tony Soprano's sister Janice, David Proval ("The Shawshank Redemption") as Richie Aprile, brother of deceased mob boss Jackie Aprile, and Drea de Matteo ("Meet Prince Charming"), reprising her role as Adriana. "The Sopranos" is an HBO production in association with Brillstein-Grey Entertainment. It is executive produced by series creator David Chase, Brad Grey, Mitchell Burgess and Robin Green. |
